Steve House visits the U.S. military facility Camp Carroll in Chilgok, 300 kilometers southeast of Seoul, where he and two other U.S. veterans claimed they secretly buried hundreds of drums of Agent Orange in 1978. House came to South Korea to testify about the Agent Orange burial. The toxic defoliant, widely used during the Vietnam War, can cause serious health problems, including cancer, genetic damage and birth defects. (Yonhap)
This is about a place where we use to live as a family.
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"Soil samples obtained from Area 41 contained concentrations of numerous
contaminants including TPH-G, TPH-D, TPH-O, VOCs, SVOCs, pesticides,
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) regulated metals, and
dioxins" Camp Carroll Area D and Area 41 Site Investigation July 2004:
http://8tharmy.korea.army.mil/2004_03_ES[1].pdf
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"The Army disposed of Agent Orange, Agent Blue, Urox 22, Lindane and other very, very nasty chemicals in a toxic dump at Camp Carroll in South Korea." says Steve House a former heavy equipment operator with the 802nd Engineer Battalion. He says he buried hundreds of chemical drums in a ditch the size of a city block. "The soil was sandy, not a pebble in it," he recalls. "I could feel the drums busting like grapes beneath the weight of the bulldozer." And how can he be certain what was in those drums? "We read the labels," he replies. "The lieutenant took the serial number off every barrel." by Mike Connell, Old Soldier Accepts One Last Mission:
http://www.thetimesherald.com/article/20120122/OPINION02/201220315/Mike-Connell-Old-soldier-accepts-one-last-mission?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE%7Cp
